Legal Commentary

Always Worse than Your Worst Expectations

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Just when you think you might have plumbed the depths of the abyss that it the Bush Justice Department, no, the Bush Administration, comes this:

More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case.

I might have suspected that a recused official would remain deeply involved in a case, but I would never have suspected illicit communications with a jury.

If recent history is any guide, there must be many more skeletons in the White House closets. The Bush team has worked hard to cover its tracks — see for example it wholesale evasion of the rules requiring the archiving of email — but who knows what else is waiting to be revealed.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on November 15, 2008 (boomark / email).